Canterbury Tales, A 2349-52.

Author / Editor
Kovetz, Gene H.

Title
Canterbury Tales, A 2349-52.

Published
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 236-37.

Description
Observes an inconsistency in Emily's address to Diana in KnT 1.2349-52 that results from Chaucer's change in the sequence of the three protagonists' addresses to deities, altering his source in Boccaccio's "Teseida." Suggests that Chaucer was "insensitive to [this] minor inconsistency" because of his overriding concern with the "Christian motif of Divine Providence."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations